India, Nov. 16 -- Manipuri theatre icon Ratan Thiyam will be posthumously honoured with the Sumitra Charat Ram Award for Lifetime Achievement 2025 at a ceremony hosted by the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra (SBKK) at Kamani Auditorium on Monday, officials said. The honour recognises his decades-long contribution to expanding the aesthetic, spiritual and philosophical boundaries of modern Indian theatre, they added.

The award ceremony, instituted in 2010 to acknowledge artists who embody lifelong dedication to the arts, will begin at 6.30pm on November 17, which is also the birth anniversary of SBKK founder Sumitra Charat Ram. This year's ceremony returns to Kamani Auditorium, a space envisioned by Ram as a democratic cultural stage for all...